Monthly Archives: November 2024

Kaspar Villadsen, Foucault’s Technologies – Oxford University Press, November 2024

Posted on November 11, 2024 by stuartelden

Kaspar Villadsen, Foucault’s Technologies – Oxford University Press, November 2024 Shame about the prohibitive price… Michel Foucault is rarely viewed as a philosopher of technology, yet academics and students routinely refer to his terms ‘technologies of power’, ‘governmental technologies’, and … Continue reading →

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Caroline Ashcroft, Catastrophic Technology in Cold War Political Thought – Edinburgh University Press, November 2024

Posted on November 11, 2024 by stuartelden

Caroline Ashcroft, Catastrophic Technology in Cold War Political Thought – Edinburgh University Press, November 2024

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David McLaughlin, Making the literary-geographical word of Sherlock Holmes: The game is afoot – University of Wales Press, October 2024

Posted on November 10, 2024 by stuartelden

David McLaughlin, Making the literary-geographical word of Sherlock Holmes: The game is afoot – University of Wales Press, October 2024 In the second half of the twentieth century, American readers of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories – known as … Continue reading →

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Thomas Piketty and Michael J. Sandel, Equality: What it Means and Why it Matters – Polity, January 2025

Posted on November 9, 2024 by stuartelden

Thomas Piketty and Michael J. Sandel, Equality: What it Means and Why it Matters – Polity, January 2025 In this compelling dialogue, two of the world’s most influential thinkers reflect on the value of equality and debate what citizens and … Continue reading →

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Books received – Bradley, Konings, Nail, Adey, TCS

Posted on November 8, 2024 by stuartelden

Some books previously mentioned here, sent by publishers – Arthur Bradley, Staging Sovereignty: Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy; Martijn Konings, The Bailout State: Why Governments Rescue Banks, Not People; Thomas Nail, The Philosophy of Movement: An Introduction; Peter Adey, Evacuation: The Politics … Continue reading →

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Denis J.B. Shaw, Reconnoitring Russia: Mapping, exploring and describing early modern Russia, 1613-1825 – UCL Press, October 2024 (print and open access)

Posted on November 7, 2024 by stuartelden

Denis J.B. Shaw, Reconnoitring Russia: Mapping, exploring and describing early modern Russia, 1613-1825 – UCL Press, October 2024 (print and open access) Like many European countries during the Great Age of Discovery and Exploration, Russia embarked on policies of state building, … Continue reading →

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Rhodri Lewis, Shakespeare’s Tragic Art – Princeton University Press, October 2024

Posted on November 6, 2024 by stuartelden

Rhodri Lewis, Shakespeare’s Tragic Art – Princeton University Press, October 2024 In Shakespeare’s Tragic Art, Rhodri Lewis offers a powerfully original reassessment of tragedy as Shakespeare wrote it—of what drew him toward tragic drama, what makes his tragedies distinctive, and why … Continue reading →

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Michael Marder and Giovanbattista Tusa (eds.), Contemporanea: A Glossary for the Twenty-First Century – MIT Press, March 2024

Posted on November 5, 2024 by stuartelden

Michael Marder and Giovanbattista Tusa (eds.), Contemporanea: A Glossary for the Twenty-First Century – MIT Press, March 2024 A groundbreaking, multidisciplinary collection that rethinks our present moment and anticipates the key concepts that will shape and direct the twenty-first century. Contemporanea is a nascent lexicon for … Continue reading →

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Elias J. Palti, Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change, Cambridge University Press, May 2024

Posted on November 4, 2024 by stuartelden

Elias J. Palti, Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change, Cambridge University Press, May 2024 How does long-term intellectual change occur? Can we develop a theoretical framework for understanding past systems of knowledge? In this ambitious study, Elías José Palti … Continue reading →

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Dimitris Vardoulakis, The Ruse of Techne: Heidegger’s Magical Materialism – Fordham University Press, September 2024

Posted on November 3, 2024 by stuartelden

Dimitris Vardoulakis, The Ruse of Techne: Heidegger’s Magical Materialism – Fordham University Press, September 2024 The Ruse of Techne offers a reappraisal of Heidegger’s entire work by focusing on the forms of activity he regards as separate from instrumentality. Non-instrumental activities … Continue reading →

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